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Lawdit Commercial Solicitors: Before you apply for a patent application in the UK you should consider the following: 1. Is there another type of protection that is more appropriate to protect your invention? You may also wish to consider these alternatives in addition to patent protection. Confidential... More

IPWatchdog.com: Over the last week a heated debate has been raging here on IPWatchdog.com regarding whether patents should exist at all. See Reality Check: Anti-Patent Patent Musings Simply Bizarre and Responding to Critics: My View on Patents & Innovation. I have offered a point by point debate... More

New York Times: Recently, a number of companies from the information technology and financial services sectors have been pushing Congress to change the patent system. The companies have been seeking passage of the Patent Reform Act of 2009 (H.R. 1260 and S. 515). So far, the legislation has been introduced... More

Fast Company: Innovators don’t invent all by themselves: To paraphrase Isaac Newton, great inventors see further than others because they stand on the shoulders of giants. Researchers at the Center for Technology Assessment hope to use that insight to clear out the enormous blacklog of U.S. patent... More

Worcester Business Journal: 1. Expensive Proposition Don’t underestimate the time and cost. Patents are expensive, typically costing many thousands of dollars to have prepared and filed. Once filed, they often pend for several years before being approved. 2. Details, Details A patent application must... More

E-Commerce Times: As technology has advanced, the federal courts have routinely been tasked with interpreting what types of inventions are eligible for patent protection under the Patent Act. For example, in 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that human-made microorganisms were eligible for patent protection. As... More

Centre Daily Times: Election week news was replete with headlines such as “Chinese hack into White House network” and “Foreign governments attack White House, Obama, McCain systems.” The scheduled subject of this month’s column — Patrick D. McDaniel, associate professor in Penn State’s... More

ReadWriteWeb: We live in an age when success of innovation is mixed with unprecedented failures. On one hand we’re reinventing the web, fighting for a greener future and building genomix. On the other there are housing bubbles, credit crises and war. The technology patent crisis is important to our... More

Entrepreneur.com: The web has revolutionized nearly every aspect of human endeavor. The cliché goes that you can do everything from diagnosing medical aliments to investigating your genealogy while sitting at home in your underwear. This is equally true for entrepreneurs, who can perform virtually... More

Wall Street Journal: Thomas Edison once said, “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” He might have added a third ingredient: a patent. Without one, inventors can’t sell, license or protect their creations. Edison understood that very well: He held 1,093 patents,... More